ἡλιομαντεία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἥλῐος (hḗlios, “sun”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hɛː.li.o.man.těː.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)e̝.li.o.manˈti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.li.o.manˈti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.li.o.manˈti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.li.o.manˈdi.a/
Noun
ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱ • (hēliomanteíā) f (genitive ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱς); first declension
- magical invocation of the sun
Inflection
First declension of ἡ ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱ; τῆς ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱ hē hēliomanteíā | τὼ ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱ tṑ hēliomanteíā | αἱ ἡλῐομᾰντεῖαι hai hēliomanteîai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱς tês hēliomanteíās | τοῖν ἡλῐομᾰντείαιν toîn hēliomanteíain | τῶν ἡλῐομᾰντειῶν tôn hēliomanteiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἡλῐομᾰντείᾳ têi hēliomanteíāi | τοῖν ἡλῐομᾰντείαιν toîn hēliomanteíain | ταῖς ἡλῐομᾰντείαις taîs hēliomanteíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱν tḕn hēliomanteíān | τὼ ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱ tṑ hēliomanteíā | τᾱ̀ς ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱς tā̀s hēliomanteíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱ hēliomanteíā | ἡλῐομᾰντείᾱ hēliomanteíā | ἡλῐομᾰντεῖαι hēliomanteîai | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἡλιομαντεία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press